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Dun a' Chaisteil
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2290
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2290 (2290)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 7137 7794
- Latitude
- 55.94002
- Longitude
- -5.66263
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Earthwork Survey (1934); Other (1942); Other (1959); Other (1963); Other (1973); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3645
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3645
- National record
- record NR 77 NW 7; monument 39054
- Wikidata
- Q31094391
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- RCAHMS (1988) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 6: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, prehistoric and early historic monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh